Issue Sep 10-16 2025: The United States has added Bolivia to the list of countries that are non-compliant with international agreements against drug trafficking, placing the South American country in the company of other non-compliant states such as Burma, Afghanistan, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: Guatemala’s Secretary of Social Communication for the Presidency has shared with the public a letter that country’s president, Bernardo Arévalo, received from U.S. President Donald Trump in which the American leader highlights the fight against drug trafficking and agreements between the two countries to modernize Guatemala’s infrastructure.

Issue Sep 10-16 2025: During a speech given on Mexico’s Independence Day, president Claudia Sheinbaum proclaimed her conviction that foreign powers should refrain from intervening in her country’s affairs. “No foreign power decides for us…no interference is possible in our land,” she said.

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: While the recent visit of United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Mexico produced the sort of standard (and typically toothless) joint statement on security, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and so on that has come to be expected after such encounters, the real takeaway from the meeting was Rubio’s description of

Issue Sep 03-09 2025: Five of the seven Central American countries—Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras—have established diplomatic relations with Beijing to the detriment of Taiwan, to which only Guatemala and Belize remain loyal.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The number of arrests of Guatemalans at the southern border of the United States has dropped dramatically since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. A strong campaign of warnings and constant messages from U.S. officials have had an impact on the populations of the sending countries, especially financially.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo led the reception of Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin, along with other members of the Brazilian government. After two days of meetings, agreements were signed to strengthen cooperation in scientific, economic, and environmental development, as well as in matters of health.

Issue Aug 27-Sep 02 2025: The ombudsman’s offices of Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia have sounded the alarm that there is currently a humanitarian crisis in the region involving “reverse migration,” that is, migrants returning through those countries on their way south after being deported from Mexico or the United States.

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: A recent Pew Research Center report shows that for the first time in many years, in early 2025 the foreign-born population in the United States fell significantly, dropping from 53.3 million to 51.9 million. If the trend continues—likely due to Trump’s immigration policies—the foreign-born share could well plummet below 15%, a

Issue Aug 20-26 2025: The U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean has raised doubts on President Trump’s strategy on Maduro and drug trafficking in Venezuela.